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COVID-19 material wanted for University Archives

May 11, 2020

Massey Archives wants to collect your experiences of COVID-19. Massey University Library managers meeting during COVID-19 The pandemic is a momentous event in our history. The University is eager to capture the Massey community’s material, experiences and memories around the pandemic. As a time capsule of sorts, this material may in the future form a rich resource that helps illustrate and explain how we responded and how the pandemic had shaped the University’s path. We are calling on the Massey community to send us their material. This will be lodged with the University Archives for safe-keeping. Depending on the nature of the material, it may be made available online via the Tāmiro platform. What...Read more

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Twentieth anniversary of first Māori Studies PhDs

May 7, 2020

Taken after the conferment of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Māori Studies on 15 December 2000. This was the first time this degree was awarded by Massey University. The photograph shows, from left to right, Dr Monty Soutar, Chancellor...Read more

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Online magazines and newspapers at Library.PressDisplay

April 3, 2020

Library.PressDisplay is a rolling 60-day archive of magazines and newspapers from New Zealand and around the world. They appear as the originals did in print, rather than being re-formatted for the web. Please note: the number of simultaneous...Read more

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Google Scholar Error Message

April 2, 2020

Occasionally Google Scholar via the Library website gives an error message, usually when there is high traffic going through this route. If you come across multiple Captcha forms or “unusual traffic” error messages, keep refreshing your...Read more

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Open Access – A review on the current state of OA at Massey

March 19, 2020

This post is the second of two relating to the current state of Open Access  in New Zealand. The first is here. Massey University’s data was extracted from the national sample and analysed in the same way and found that two thirds of...Read more

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Open Access – A review of the current state of OA in New Zealand

March 18, 2020

This is the first of two posts reporting on an environment scan of Open Access (OA) in New Zealand. The second will be up later this week and will give an overview of Massey University’s state of Open Access. A working group of the Council of...Read more

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The godwits/kūaka on Wikipedia need your help!

February 24, 2020

GODWITS/KŪAKA WIKIPEDIA EDIT-A-THON Join Dr Mike Dickison (former NZ Wikipedian-at-Large, currently Research Information Advisor at Massey) to learn about Wikipedia editing and improve the Massey and NZ coverage of these global migrants  who...Read more

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Automatic sign-in to Discover

February 13, 2020

Discover now signs you into your personal EBSCO account when you enter your Massey username and password. This means you can download ebooks, save items and searches in folders, and take notes within content without the previous system of having...Read more

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New open access publishing option free to Massey researchers

November 22, 2019

Massey researchers now have another open access (OA) publishing option which is free to them, a recent development in the ever-changing OA landscape. The Library has just signed its first transformative agreements with journal publishers – a...Read more

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Your invitation to explore Massey University Archives

October 17, 2019

Come and discover the archival collections of Massey University, including student magazines, photographs, objects, documents, personal papers and much more. On 7 November from 10am to 2pm, during Palmerston North Local History Week, the Massey...Read more

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